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(More customer reviews)Since the description of this does not give you a good grasp of exactly how the book is set up I will first fill you in on that. The first couple of pages are a maze game, which quite frankly I see no purpose for and really is not interesting to my child...might work for other kids though. Following that are the 26 letters of the alphabet in capital and lower case tracers each with a game area at the bottom of the page. The last few pages are game pages with simple three letter word tracers. Okay onto the review...
We got my son a leappad plus writing for Christmas last year (he was 3-years-old, now 4). Well needless to say he has become very bored with the Pre-K books available so I got this one. He has been doing tracer pages learning how to write his name for a little while now and I thought this would reinforce him wanting to learn how to write other letters not in his name. Much to my surprise he is not even remotely interested in doing the tracer area of the pages, however, the games at the bottom of the pages really hold his interest quite well. While he is not yet really learning how to write the different letters the little games at the bottom are teaching him how to spell simple words. This is very exciting for my son as he is finally starting to understand the ABC's have more purpose than just a song! While he is not really interested in tracing a whole page of A's or any other letter he gladly traces the simple three letter words at the bottom of the pages that are associated with the games, thus still teaching him how to write some letters. As a result of this he has learned to spell cat, cow, mop, dog, and gum which he can verbally do now without the word being spelled out in front of him. The game mode is simple to understand and the directions are fairly straightforward. Occasionally, he runs across a word he doesn't understand because it hasn't been taught to him yet, like buzzard, but do to his curiosity it provides a great reason to teach that word. Overall I give this 5 stars...even though it didn't get him excited about learning to write his letters.
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The LeapPad Plus library teaches writing and features exciting new ways to learn important reading and math skills.
Prepare for success in school with the LeapPad Plus Writing Library Kindergarten Reading and Writing Book and Cartridge. Learn letter-writing basics, beginning reading and math. For use with your LeapPad Plus Writing System (sold separately).
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